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“As perfect as the beads of any rosary.”
–Sandra Cisneros, writer of The House on Mango Block
“Fresh, marvelous, beautiful, evocative” says Lisa See, relating to this wonderful first novel by Alex Espinoza. Still Drinking water Saints chronicles a momentous 12 months in the life span of Agua Mansa, a typically Latino town beyond the fringes of Los Angeles and home to the Botánica Oshún, where people come seeking charms, herbs, and candles. Most importantly, they seek the assistance of Perla Portillo, the shop’s owner. Perla has offered the community for years, arming her clients with the tools to beat all manner of crises, large and small. There is certainly Juan, a guy coming to conditions with the death of his daddy; Nancy, a just lately married schoolteacher; Shawn, an addict looking for peacefulness in his chaotic life; and Rosa, an adolescent trying to lose weight and find herself. But when a person with a troubled and mysterious previous arrives, Perla battles to help and must confront both her unfulfilled hopes and uncertainties about her devote a quickly changing world.
Imaginative, inspiring, lyrical, and attractively written, Still Drinking water Saints evokes the unpredictability of life and the resilience of the heart through the journeys of the folks of Agua Mansa, and especially of the main one woman at the guts of it all. Theirs are testimonies of trust and betrayal, love and loss, the bonds of family and community, and the constancy of change.
From the Hardcover release.
